From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G8uaE-0001gH-Iv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:59:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k747vnDh020163; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 07:57:49 GMT Received: from buggy.blubb.ch (cable-static-87-245-102-53.shinternet.ch [87.245.102.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k747sIeW002362 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 07:54:18 GMT Received: from aqua ([192.168.10.5]) by buggy.blubb.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1G8wFm-0008DY-3V for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:46:02 +0200 Message-ID: <44D2FD2A.6080505@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:54:18 +0200 From: Simon Stelling User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060731) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax References: <7B97065F451A23458ED0C63B4CA5A2EA1D2911@SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local> <20060803153407.GA19696@nibiru.local> In-Reply-To: <20060803153407.GA19696@nibiru.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 15a6c357-4392-4984-a597-789cbcd2c414 X-Archives-Hash: c2a6bf4008db0d60962d46a86a0b9244 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > For example: mplayer > It has it's gui-less player and an gtk-based frontend in one package. > We should split this into two packages: mplayer and gmplayer. > The chances to get this done in the upstream *before* some major > distro like gentoo does the split by its own are quite low. Not quite true. In reality, they're just the same. mplayer simply checks whether it was called as mplayer or gmplayer. So you not only have two programs in one package, but even in one binary. Changing this behaviour has nothing to do with packaging and is really upstream's responsibility, IMHO. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list